A film based on Miguel de Cervantes’ classic picaresque tale Don Quixote is in development at Disney, it has emerged.
This film is not connected with director Terry Gilliam’s long-running attempts to get a Quixote project off the ground, chronicled most famously in the 2002 documentary, Lost in La Mancha, which followed the unravelling of Gilliam’s version with Johnny Depp and Jean Rochefort.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, screenwriter Billy Ray is working on an adaptation of Quixote that recalls “the madcap and fantastical nature of Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean movies”.
Ray, writer on Captain Phillips and The Hunger Games, is also on board as producer.